Hair-crimper



(No Model.)

. CAMPBEL .HAIR URIMPER No. 294,309.. Patented Feb; 26, 1884.

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MARK CAMPBELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAlR- CRlMPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,309, dated February 26, 1884,

Application filed May 14, 1883. (No model.) I

' T at whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, MARK CAMPBELL, of

Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois,

companying drawings, and to letters of referstyles of crimping devices ence marked thereon, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for manipulating the hair; and it consists in providing a crimping-iron with a spring placed between the handles and so arranged as to automatically spread the handles and close the jaws in a clamping position, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of acrimping device embodying my improved features; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 4, a transverse section in the'plane w m, Fig. 1; and Figs. 3 and 5 are different embodying my improvement.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a crimping-iron of the ordinary form, consisting of the two parts A A provided with the jaws B B and the handles 0 O, the two parts v provement this feature is reversed, the jaws receding from each other as thehandles are pressed together. The inner sides of the handles G O are provided with the channels or grooves a M, for the reception of the spring D. This spring is composed of anylsuitable material, and is bent around itself in the middle to vform the tension-loop b. The two ends b If, projecting backward, in the form of a U, from the fulcrum-joint of the crim'p-' ingiron, are inserted in the grooves a ahthe loop end of the spring resting at the junction of the handles, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. This spring is removably retained in place by frictional contact with the parts against which it bears, and serves to automatically throw the hands apart when the pressure from the hand of the operator is relaxed, the jaws closing to grasp or clamp the object at the same time.

Instead of providing the handles with grooves for the reception of the widely-extended ends of the spring D, the ends may be bent at right angles to and inserted into correspondinglyrecessed apertures in the handles, and the parts recessed or grooved at the junction for the reception of the loop end of the spring. This spring may be of any desired or different form from that shown, and may be'secured in relation to the handles in various ways, as I do not confine myself to any precise form of construction or manner of arranging thespring so long as the main object of automatically spreading the handles is accomplished. By this arhold the hair during the process of manipulating the same without any pressure from the hand of the operator, pressure only being required from the hand, in order to open the jaws as the device is moved, thus entirely dispensing with the necessity of the operator having to exert a constant pressure in order to accomplish the desired result, as is ordinarily the casev where the device is so constructed as torequire the handles to .be pressed together in order to close the jaws. It is a very laborious and tiresome task to many persons to grasp and tightly hold the handles in order to clamp the jaws at each movement; but this difficulty is entirely obviated by the use of the spring D. The enlarged washers dd are placed on the ends of the fulcrum-rivet, as shown in Fig. 4 of .the drawings, the edges of which project over'part of each side of the pose of assisting to prevent an accidental lateral displacement of the same.

Figs. 3 and 5 of the drawings show the adaptation of any improved feature to difieri coiled end of the spring and serve the purrangement the device is caused to grasp and r i out styles of crimping devices, the gist of my 'inner side of the handles thereof, of the spring; improvement relating to the spring and the D, having a tension-100p formed in the midl0 manner of retaining the same in place. die, and the washers d d", placed on the ful- Having thus described my invention, what I cram-rivet, substantially as described. 5 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters MARK CAMPBELL.

Patent, is- Witnesses:

The combination, with a crimping-iron pro- STEPHEN H. LADD, vided with shallow recessed grooves on the L. M. FREEMAN. 

